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Aped from The Daily Telegraph. What a good idea. :thumb: New MPG database challenges 'wildly optimistic' official figures Disappointed that your new car can't match the manufacturer's claimed fuel consumption figures? You're not alone – now Honest John has the answer. Honest...

I dont know whether its true or not but I remember reading in a car mag years ago as to why Mercedes brought out the SLK and it didnt have anything to do with the new fangled trick tin top roof. Apparently the wife of one of the top cheeses at merc had a 129 and found it too much effort to...

Are the 300CE Coupes really some 240kg's heavier than the 300E sedan's? That's a helava weight difference when factoring in power-to-weight ratio with a project build Very interesting.......... Many websites have differing weights. For example. One site will state the 300E kerb weight is...

Saw this on my searches and sent the owner an email with regards 2007(57) Mercedes-Benz E-Class E220 CDI Executive Cars for Sale London London Its a 2007(57) Mercedes-Benz E-Class E220 Cdi Executive at £8000 and 23000 miles on the clock. The owner replied to my mileage query with: ''I have...

"Facebook launched Facebook Places yesterday. This new setting allows anyone to find out where you are when you are logged in. It gives the actual address and map location of where you are as you use Facebook. Users will be familiar with geo-tagging. However, the difference here is Facebook...

NOW THIS IS WHAT I CALL QUALITY!

An interesting article Mercedes Installation Packages - MBenzNL - European Car Magazine

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I have had this through on an email a long time ago and it surfaced again today. So with the wealth of knowledge amongst forum members I though I would post it to find out if all or some of it is true or not. I do think the second point would be very useful, if true. 4 THINGS YOU...

Some advice needed please. My mum has spotted a pretty SLK200 on auto trader for £5200, e-mailed the vendor to question the price and the reply was Yes - £5200. woohoo she thinks. The problem is that it is a 54 plate UK registered convertible & the owner is selling the car using Ebay as an...

Today I have heard that there is a group targeting cars with sat navs and valuable item left inside a car. I have been told that they use some device linked to a laptop that will open your vehicle and disable your factory alarm from a short distance. Has anyone heard about this? I have been...

When the 0-60mph figures are compiled how do they do it? The thing that puzzles me is: If an auto car has sport mode, do they use the sport mode when testing the 0-60 or not. My other car is a Vauxhall Omega 3.0V6 with sport mode box. I think the car reaches 0-60 quicker than the figures...

This seems remarkably cheap, if it wasn't for the fact it was 300 miles from me I would go and take a look and maybe bid! http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&item=290273304728

When MIJ was fitting my custom exhaust on, they charged me for 2 cats instead of 1 since my car had the double cat system, and his reason for doing this was he said that the car would go into limp home mode if it detected only 1 cat. Is this true? I rly think my car doesn't even have "limp...

The cost of servicing a car can be as high as £200 an hour as labour costs soar ahead of inflation. The average cost of labour at a garage is now £75.17 an hour. Franchise dealers are charging an average of £94.70 an hour for work on vehicles compared with £87.91 in 2006 - a rise of 7.7 per...

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/617177.htm hmmmm? What reckon?

Well according to TopGear "you're not a true petrol head unless you've owned an Alfa Romeo".. Well most of us now are driving a different breed of car in Mercedes, but I still remember my Alfasud 1.3 ti in Alfa red.... loved it ..loved it. Loved it so much I traded it in for a brand new (my...

How many forum members does it takes to change a light bulb? 1 to change the light bulb and to post that the light bulb has been changed 14 to share similar experiences of changing light bulbs and how the light bulb could have been changed differently 7 to caution about the dangers of...

I'd want one straight away!:bannana::bannana::bannana::bannana::bannana::bannana::bannana::rock::rock::rock::rock::D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRL1SeTJ1rk